Serendipities: Language and Lunacy [Audiobook] download free by Umberto Eco
- Listen audiobook: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
- Author: Umberto Eco
- Release date: 1999/4/25
- Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780753808788
- Rating: 9.86 of 10
- Votes: 509
- Review by: Elsie Rigsby
- Review rating: 9.36 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 2H10M21S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AC3, MOD, WMA, FLAC, MP3, ATRAC, WAV, MPEG4 (compression RAR, CBR, ZIP, Z)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 10M13S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. Eco's book shows how:- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward- the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Ideas, Sociolinguistics, Folklore, Myths & Legends, Literary Theory, Linguistics
- Download servers: FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, FlowCloud, BitShare, Hotfile. Compressed in RAR, CBR, ZIP, Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.20 USD
- Dimensions: 169x198x14mm
- Weight: 172g
- Printed by: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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